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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 9: David Sherwin Interview
August 15th, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
David Sherwin of frog joins us for the last of the seven shows we recorded from the 2011 HOW Conferences in Chicago. A big thanks goes out to the staff at HOW for helping us secure an interview room, and allowing us to walk around the closing evening events with a microphone recording our daily recaps. Great people at the organization.
As for David, he works for one of the big shops, and speaks some about their work, some about his sweet book – Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills, a bit about his ChangeOrder blog, and some about help in setting up the upcoming HOW Interactive Conference (November 2-4, 2011 in San Francisco).
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Well, maybe not together – but they did interview both of us.
Ends up that even paper companies do digital communications these days. Neenah Paper has followed up their HOW Conference Interview with Nate Voss with an interview of Donovan Beery that they call, “Little Donnie” Comes of Age. Enjoy.
The Reflex Blue Show, Season 3, Episode 11: Kevin Carroll Interview
August 4th, 2010 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
It’s only fitting that the seventh, and final, interview we recorded at the 2010 HOW Conference in Denver was with the man that handled the closing keynote.
If the goal was to have everyone leave the event inspired—done. They found the perfect person to do it. Kevin Carroll is the guy that makes you want try harder. He’s the person that reminds you to do more without actually saying the words. His books on the red rubber ball have been seen in about every design competition since they’ve been out. With reason – Willoughby Design did an amazing job bringing his words to life.
But before we can talk about what Kevin does, we talk about the after-party from the night before. Did you miss that in the schedule? Ends up DJ Noah did to, so he took it in his own hands to create one (that’s the ‘done at 3am the night before’ flyer in our graphic above). Re-live the party, or live it for the first time, with the complete music audio here. Let’s hope he DJs a party (official or not, as long as I find out about it) next year – it was a crazy time.
Just talking with Kevin got me more excited to check out the 2011 conference in Chicago than anything else. I can’t wait. Hope to see you there.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 3, Episode 10: David Berman Interview
July 28th, 2010 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
The sixth of the seven interviews we recorded from the 2010 HOW Conference in Denver was with David B. Berman.
One of the big happenings at the How Conference is the vendor area. It’s like a full tradeshow in that room. Not like a state fair with people selling pots and pans – sweet vendors like Neenah Paper right inside the door. French Paper always has some hot giveaways people line up for, but no booth gets the early crowd like Veer. I realized I was near their booth when the crowd got so packed I couldn’t see their booth. It was around this time that I met a guy named David Berman, and we started to chat. He asked about this podcast we did, and I told him to swing by our recording in a few minutes. He did. That was the HOW Day Two Recap.
Not putting the pieces together, Nate ended up at his presentation the next day and was blown away by the energy David has. We did what was needed to get him on the show, and time or schedules aside, we made it happen.
His book, Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World, is our topic. Check out a preview on Google Books to see a preview of this amazing book. We all live here. This is our profession. Change the world.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 3, Episode 9: Dyana Valentine Interview
July 16th, 2010 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
The fifth of the seven interviews we recorded from the 2010 HOW Conference in Denver was with Dyana Valentine.
We went to Denver a day before the actual HOW Conference began, and ended up spending the day at the Creative Freelancer Conference across the street. I have to mention that we showed up a few minutes early – any stereotypes of freelancers being late were instantly blown out of the water, as the room was already filled – and we had to look around for an empty seat. I look at the table, and in front of me is a large stack of business cards and 1″ buttons with a logo I recognized. A logo I remember seeing on the website of our favorite guest, Steve Gordon (see the work on his site here).
A quick introduction, an hour or two of speakers, and Dyana took the stage and walked the room through creating a perfect elevator pitch for their business. That’s it, we knew Dyana needed to be on the show, and even with a full slate of five interviews already scheduled, we fit in another (next week’s story will be like déjà-vu if you want to know how this math adds up to the seven mentioned in the first sentence).
Dyana talks about these perfect pitches, helping creatives make their business thrive, and her favorite Scrabble word. And we’ll be back next week with another interview. Enjoy.
Bonus: Dyana has her session worksheets posted online to use for your own business here.
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Nate Voss is a designer, illustrator, talkshow host and design journalist. Working in Omaha since 2001, Nate served four years on the Board of Directors for 
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